From Brain Waves to Heartbeats: How Sleep Shapes Memory and Cognitive Health. Psychology Departmental Seminar, University of Essex, UK (2026, Jan)
How do hippocampal ripples orchestrate cortical dynamics during human sleep? Experimental Psychology Department Seminar Series, University of Oxford, UK (2025, Nov)
From brain waves to memories: Harnessing brain imaging and AI to read the inner workings of human memory. Mind, Brain and Behaviour (MBB) Cluster Seminar, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK (2024, Nov)
SLUMBER — Spatiotemporal Localization Using MEG-EEG for Brain-wide Events during NREM. Oxford Sleep Initiative Meeting, Oxford, UK (2024, Nov)
The central-autonomic seesaw of sleep-dependent episodic memory and working memory improvements. Seminar Series, Project TYRA (Taiwanese Young Researcher Association) (2023, April)
The central-autonomic seesaw of sleep-dependent episodic memory and working memory improvements. Institute of Neuroscience Seminar, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan (2022, Oct)
Autonomic-Central Interactions During Sleep Strongly Impacts Sleep-Dependent Cognitive Plasticity. Eisai Inc. (Virtual; 2021, May)
Trusting your heart during sleep in the fight against cognitive aging. UCI Grad Slam Semi-Final Competition (Virtual; 2021, Jan)
Spindles switch the sleeping brain from frontal lobe to hippocampal processing: A pharmacology study. UCI CogSci Colloquium Flash Talks Series (Virtual; 2020, Oct)
Why do we sleep? The impacts of sleep on emotion and memory. Academic Salon, Taiwanese Graduate Student Association, UCI (2017, Dec)
Cortical signatures of hippocampal ripples in human sleep: From single-units, LFPs, to scalp EEG. Nanosymposium speaker, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA (2025, Nov)
Cortical signatures of hippocampal ripples in human sleep — can we decode hippocampal ripples from scalp EEG? Data Blitz, 4th International Conference on Memory Replay, Cardiff, UK (2025, May)
Neural correlates of working memory improvement during sleep. Data Blitz, Winter Memory Conference, Park City, UT, USA (2025, Jan)
Simultaneous EEG-MEG sleep recording and source localization reveal precise spatial temporal distribution of spindle activity during sleep. MEG-UKI Conference, Birmingham, UK (2024, Oct) (also presented as a poster)
Hippocampal ripples during offline periods predict motor sequence learning. Data Blitz, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Toronto, Canada (2024, April) (also presented as a poster)
Integrating measurements of the autonomic nervous system and heart-brain interactions with sleep and memory research. 3rd International Sleep Replay Workshop, Huntington Beach, CA, USA (2023, April)
Working and episodic memory vie for resources during sleep. Open-paper speaker, Learning & Memory 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA (2023, April)
The role of the autonomic nervous system in the science of sleep. Symposium speaker, 35th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine/APSS (Virtual; 2021, June)
The sleeping brain switches from frontal-subcortical working memory to hippocampal episodic memory processing during NREM sleep. 35th Annual Meeting of APSS (Virtual; 2021, June)
Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep. 2021 Virtual Working Memory Symposium (Virtual; 2021, June)
The sleeping brain switches between working memory and long-term memory processing. Data blitz, Spring Conference at UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Irvine, CA (2021, May)
The sleeping brain switches from frontal-subcortical working memory to hippocampal episodic memory processing during NREM sleep. UCI Associated Graduate Student Virtual Symposium (Virtual; 2021, April)
Vagolytic effect of Zolpidem on sleep-dependent memory: A trade-off between working memory and long-term memory. 2020 Neuromatch Conference 3.0 (Virtual; 2020, Oct)
Unsupervised learning of sleep stages from polysomnography (PSG) data. 2nd Annual Computational Data Neuroscience Symposium (Virtual; 2020, Oct)
Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap. 2nd Annual Computational Data Neuroscience Symposium (Virtual; 2020, Oct)
Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep boosts working memory in healthy young adults. 2020 Virtual Working Memory Symposium (Virtual; 2020, June)
The roles of autonomic activities during sleep on cognition. Spring Conference at UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2019, May)
Chen, P.-C., Stritzelberger, J., Hamer, H., & Staresina, B. (2025, Nov). Signatures of hippocampal ripples during human sleep: From spiking activity, LFP to scalp EEG. Human Single-Neuron Meeting 2025, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Chen, P.-C., Stritzelberger, J., Hamer, H., & Staresina, B. (2025, April). Cortical signatures of hippocampal ripples in human sleep. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.
Chen, P.-C., Zhang, J., Tambini, A., & Mednick, S. C. (2022, June). How do slow oscillation and vagal activity support working memory? An EEG/fMRI study. 35th Annual Meeting of APSS, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Chen, P.-C., Niknazar, H., Alaynick, W. A., Whitehurst, L. N., & Mednick, S. C. (2021, Aug). Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep. 41st Annual Conference of the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association (Virtual).
Chen, P.-C., Niknazar, H., Alaynick, W. A., Whitehurst, L. N., & Mednick, S. C. (2021, April). The sleeping brain switches between working memory and long-term memory processing. Women in STEM Symposium 2021 (Virtual).
Chen, P.-C., Whitehurst, L. N., Naji, M., & Mednick, S. C. (2020, Aug). Age-related changes in central autonomic couplings during sleep. 34th Annual Meeting of APSS (Virtual).
Chen, P.-C., Whitehurst, L. N., Naji, M., & Mednick, S. C. (2019, Sep). Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep boosts working memory in healthy young adults. Annual Meeting of the World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Chen, P.-C., Sattari, N., Whitehurst, L. N., & Mednick, S. C. (2019, June). Parasympathetic activity during sleep, but not wake, facilitates working memory improvement: A comparison of young and older adults. Annual Meeting of the World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Chen, P.-C., Whitehurst, L. N., Naji, M., & Mednick, S. C. (2019, June). Coupling of autonomic and central events during sleep boosts working memory in healthy young adults. Annual Meeting of APSS, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Chen, P.-C., Whitehurst, L. N., Naji, M., & Mednick, S. C. (2018, April). A daytime nap facilitates working memory in healthy young adults. Learning & Memory 2018, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.
Chen, P.-C., Jan, Y.-W., & Yang, C.-M. (2016, June). Discrepancy between subjective and objective actigraphic sleep estimation for individuals with low and high sleep vulnerability. Annual Meeting of APSS, Denver, CO, USA.
Shuster, A., Chen, P.-C., Niknazar, H., McDevitt, E., Lopour, B., & Mednick, S. C. (2024, Dec). REM alpha bursts predict hippocampal-dependent forgetting. 4th International Sleep Replay Workshop (Virtual).
Sha, M., Chen, P.-C., Chen, Y., Foster, B., & Staresina, B. (2024, Dec). Coupled sleep rhythms in human hippocampus support memory consolidation. 4th International Sleep Replay Workshop (Virtual).
Morehouse, A. B., Simon, K. C., Zhang, J., Chen, P.-C., Whitehurst, L. N., & Mednick, S. C. (2023, April). Does cardiac autonomic variation across sleep stages differentially impact emotional and neutral memory consolidation? Learning & Memory 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.
Shuster, A., Chen, P.-C., Niknazar, H., & Mednick, S. C. (2023, April). Identifying novel markers of memory in REM sleep. International Conference on Learning & Memory 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.
Subramoniam, A., Chen, P.-C., Mednick, S., & Whitehurst, L. N. (2022, June). Slow oscillation power and heart rate variability during sleep predicts next-day subjective sleepiness in healthy young adults. 35th Annual Meeting of APSS, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Arumugam, A., Mair, S., Zhang, J., & Chen, P.-C. (2022, May). Role of sex hormones and sleep on anxiety levels. 2022 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC).
Cho, S., Sam, K., Zhang, J., & Chen, P.-C. (2022, May). The interaction between dream recall, declarative memory, and sex hormones. 2022 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC).
Delvey, C. & Chen, P.-C. (2018, Nov). Central autonomic couplings during sleep can predict sleep-induced working memory improvement. 2018 Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research.
Bayati, M. & Chen, P.-C. (2018, Nov). Age-related changes in central autonomic couplings during sleep. 2018 Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research.